Dumitru
A Latin name meaning "devotee of Demeter," the goddess of the harvest. In Poland it stays rare: only about 1,200 men carry it, and most Poles have never met one.
Dumitru Pronunciation
Dumitru is pronounced doo-MEET-roo (/duˈmitru/).
What Dumitru means
Where Dumitru comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dumitru descends from the Latin name Demetrius, which honored Demeter, the Greek goddess of grain and the harvest. The meaning passed down with it is "devotee of Demeter." That devotion belonged first to the goddess. Latin carried the name across centuries before it hardened into Romanian speech as Dumitru.
One bearer is easy to check. Dumitru Prunariu became the first Romanian to reach space, flying aboard Soyuz 40 in May 1981. The same Latin Demetrius stands behind the Slavic Dymitr, so a Polish reader meets an old relative here.
Picture a class register at a Polish school, a Dumitru written in among the Dymitrs and Dominiks. The name looks foreign and is not. Its root reaches back to Demeter and to the plain sense it still keeps: devotee of the harvest goddess.
How many people are named Dumitru
1 in 18292 men in Poland is named Dumitru. 1,167 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #891 among male names.
Dumitru as a middle name
Dumitru is a first name for 1,167 men in Poland and a middle name for another 26, a 98/2 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1671st, between Dominick (26) and Elian (26).
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1669
26Davis
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1670
26Dominick
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167126Dumitru
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1672
26Elian
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1673
26Florent